Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Cons...
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this military waste when it has served its purpose and what does it tell us about militarism in American culture?
Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...
46 min
1703
Raj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Che...
Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...
44 min
1704
Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproducti...
Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism...
53 min
1705
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, "The Power of D...
62 min
1706
Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Mo...
Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..
68 min
1707
M. Schneider-Mayerson and B. R. Bellamy, "An Ec...
"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...
43 min
1708
Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity...
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?
Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...
63 min
1710
Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back...
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?
24 min
1711
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
1712
Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
1713
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" ...
Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...
42 min
1714
Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, V...
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...
69 min
1715
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1716
Srdja Popovic, "Blueprint for Revolution" (Spie...
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.
40 min
1717
Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min
1718
James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Deb...
Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...
121 min
1719
Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
González Hernando explores how think tanks were impacted by the 2008 crisis.
38 min
1721
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
1722
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
32 min
1723
Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
1724
Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
1725
Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...